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girls aqueducted from the boarding school in northeastern nigeria, take sboon the jungle and possibly split up and sold as child brides. so in the most doing you assignment any cnn correspondent has had this year, the team made the frightening four-day journey to be the first international reporter to reach the northeastern nigerian town where the girls were kidnapped and joins me now live. did this young girl decide to share her story firsthand with cnn for a specific reason? why is she talking? >> reporter: well, there really is a sense, randi, in spite of what we're hearing, the pledges for support, the bring back the girls hash tag, that for the people there they feel that they have been forgotten by the world, they feel isolated. it is almost a month and in that time many of them are slowly losing hope. so, those who can bring

themselves to speak, those who can bring themselves to talk a little bit about what they went through do so because they hope to remind the world that the girls are still out there waiting to be found. take a listen to what she had to say, randi. by an absolute miracle, some of those girls managed to escape on that horrifying night. for them, this nightmare isn't over. one of them has agreed to speak to us but asked we don't identify her in any way, don't give away her name, the family house, anything to bring about what she fears the most, that the kidnappers could come back for her. >> you see and go and enter the cars. >> what kind? >> a big lorry. >> one or more? >> seven. >> seven lorries? >> yes. >> 10:00 at night. >> in the night. >> so, did that make you feel

that they had come to get you, to get the girls? >> yes. >> that's when you knew that they had come to kidnap you? >> yeah. they said we enter this lorry. we go. we go. i say i will drop down. >> that was really brave of you. >> yes. and the driver, we run into bush. >> you ran in the bush? >> yes. >> and what happened then? >> i will go on. >> can you describe the men? that came and took you? what did they look like? were they wearing civilian clothing or military uniforms? what were they wearing? >> like -- i don't know. i don't know this one. >> but what was their dress? what were they wearing? >> i feel afraid.

>> did they look like soldiers? >> yes. we are a little afraid. >> you feel afraid. you don't want to talk about what they looked like? i understand. i understand. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> you could hear the fear still in her voice there, randi. other villagers told us in addition to the seven lorries, seven trucks there, there were also pickup cars, motor bikes. this seemed like a trip with a very specific intent to take those girls. a villager described it as a shopping trip, they had come to get the bounty and then sell it on the open market, randi. >> that is just a terrifying story, that she had to share there. thank you for your reporting. we'll hear more from you later on. nearly a month into the search now, one of the only clues investigators have involves a rambling and repulsive quite frankly hour-long video showing

chilling claims from the leader of the terror group boko haram. joining sme a forensic audio expert and here to talk about the video. paul, tell me about this. when you first heard the audio from this and you watched the video, as well, what were your first impressions? >> well, it was carefully scripted. the leader was reading from a manifesto or outline or whatever written for him, a script, in fact. also, i saw that there were a number of modern technical video type of transitions and postprocessing. so i can tell you that they have -- >> means it was well produced? >> yes, indeed. there were titles. there were super imposed logo. there were dissolves where one scene dissolves into another. it wasn't just have a camera, shoot something and then shoot something else. >> and cut, cut, cut. >> correct.

no, no. >> highly produced. >> much higher production value. >> you think it's high quality, as well? >> it was. it was hd and there is a number of different areas that the nsa and cia would be looking into and they will have teams. one is going to be analyzing the actual words to see whether there were any hidden messages. another is going to do -- >> hidden where? how so? >> hidden within the text. >> what he's saying? >> each fourth or seventh word or fifth letter and seventh word might have another meaning or sending message to people briefed to receive that. it was done with a camera on a tripod with zoom capability and they're going to be looking at the technical production. they're looking at trying to identify uniforms, vehicles. >> how would they look at --

what could they learn from studying the uniforms and the vehicles? tell them something about the surroundings possibly? where they are? >> yes. shadows. terrain. whatever they can glean to give them an idea of where and when this was initially produced. >> what did you make of his demeanor? he was at times giggling and laughing and dancing almost some points. >> yeah. almost giddy. correct. it was really horrifying to watch knowing what the meanings were. there were subtitles, as well. >> and so, the fact that he was reading, does that tell you anything about what his message was? >> well, it was carefully prepared and controlled. and so, this was not just a random, you know, jaunt into the field but he had vehicles lined up. there were weapons. i'm sure that they're doing everything they can to identify

each of these pieces of equipment. >> i'm sure they are. takes time. no question. i appreciate your guidance, though. thank you. >> thank you. right now, the world is watching a tense vote count happening in eastern ukraine. the former soviet republic may be on the verge of split apart. voters cast ballots on whether to ditch ukraine's fragile new government and rule themselves independently. the united states say it is vote is ill legitimate and blames russia for divisions within ukrai ukraine. the last polling station closed an hour ago. pro-russian separatists denying allegations of fraud. i want to show you here this exclusive video, a cnn crew saw people voting twice at one polling station. we're tracking the controversial vote there in eastern ukraine.

>> reporter: looks like democracy in action. i.d.s are checked and registered and then ultimately people cast their votes into the ballot boxes. but there are still a lot of things wrong with this picture. we've seen at least one man come in around twice to vote. some people just slipped in multiple ballots. something we have caught clearly on camera and since they're transparent, few people have folded up the ballots, you can see the yes votes in these boxes. now, is this then a verifiable accurate representation of the will of the people here? probably not. but what we do know is the undeniable amount of people coming out here to vote today and what comes across talking to voters is not a militant insistence on independence. it is not an insistence on joining russia but an anger and frustration with the government

in kiev being unwilling or unable to stop the violence. >> translator: i'm hoping the level of violence will decrease, this woman tells me. i'm hoping it gives power to the local government to resolve the conflict. that's how i understand it. right now they can't deal with what's happening because they have no authority. >> reporter: how could there be more violence, this man tells me? frankly i wasn't going to vote but taking into account my family and countrymen shot at, i don't know what other choice i have. now, the results aren't expected until later tonight. but that hardly seems to matter. it is a foregone conclusion. most people here say they know the answer to the question on the ballot. but they don't know what happens next. >> results are expected tomorrow. we'll have the news for you here on cnn. tonight, at 9:00 eastern, we are taking a closer look at life in russia with anthony bourdain.

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be in the safe spot right now in that city. this is a very dangerous cell. we'll see very gusty winds. we have had a confirmed brief touchdown with one of the tornadoes that we have been watching or potential tornadoes in nebraska. that's where i'll take you now. this is also a very dangerous storm right around sutton. in that area, be careful and get to your safe spot, as well. tornado warning until 4:30 p.m. central time. grafton and sutton. this is part of a larger storm to plague the plains tonight and even monday. severe weather threat will remain for much of this part of the country. >> long night ahead for lots of folks there. jennifer, thank you. >> yes. very sad and not unexpected news out of the rural virginia this afternoon. we learned that search crews finally did find the third person who went down in a fiery hot air balloon accident.

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>> i'm proud to give everything i got for st. louis. so many people are proud of st. louis organization for being the one to make history. michael sam revealed his sexuality to his college teammates last fall and went public in february. shortly after, he was drafted sam tweeted this photo with him wearing a new rams cap and looking pretty happy right now. >> let's talk about michael sam with commentators. nice to see you guys. so, mark, lots of talk certainly in the last 24 hours about this. even the president has you saw congratulating him. what kind of reaction will he receive practicing with the team and after that assuming he makes it? >> first of all, i think he'll make the team. i think he'll get a warm welcom from his teammates. i think that we would be naive if we were to assume there will be no problems, that there will

be no locker room issues and no player that's uncomfortable but the league and the coaches and teammates are behind this move and supportive and this is a good moment for the nfl and for the nation. but let's not pretend there's not going to be sticky points. >> yeah. as we look at the video here, ben, this is him watching him get the call and learn that he is now a st. louis ram. but certainly, seventh round draft picks don't usually get congratulations from the president of the united states. >> no. >> do you think this is going to die down by the time the season starts? >> i hope it does die down for his sake and the team's sake because it should be about the accomplishments of his abilities on the field. i mean, right now he is drafted. he's done the interviews. everyone knows he's an openly gay man and time to play football and that's what they're paying him to do. they're not paying him for any other thing but to play football and i think coach fisher showed a lot of integrity drafting him

and saying i thought he was the best fit for our team and drafted him not because of his sexuality. he drafted him because of football and as long as he goes in there and does and plays football and that's what he is there to do, i think it is fine in really the same way that you saw manti te'o play football and go away and the easiest way to be accepted in that locker room and the league is just to go do the job like every other guy is asked to do and paid big bucks to do it. congratulations and i hope that happens. >> all he's asking to do anyway. play football and be treated like a football player. so, mark, michael sam, plays in the state where he played college football in a small media market by nfl standards, do you think -- in terms of rams, are they a good fit for him? >> i think they are because he has a home team behind him in every sense of the term. networks of support and communities of care and make the

transition easier and let's not be naive here. this is not a small market for him. doesn't matter of alaska, a huge market because he's there. the nfl is as committed to showing that they have, you know, moved into a new era of progressivism and new level of understanding as anybody else and the nfl showing this. that media will be chasing him down at least for the first few months. i hope that the kid can play. only thing i'm worried about. >> let's hope so. >> the best thing to do as an ambassador is play the game and play it really well and take an opportunity and run with it. mid-level market like st. louis, i think it's certainly going to take away a little bit of distractions, some paired to an l.a. or new york or major, major market like that. i think be able to control the media better and only work to his advantage. >> all right. i'm just glad he's not in dallas. the last thing is to have another good football player. >> all right. listen, guys. stand by. we'll talk politics next.

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every question they're determined to get answers to is already answered. >> so -- >> not true. >> you want to respond because do you think that this is a political stunt? >> no. it's not. four americans died and it's sad that democrats continue to call a hearing about an american ambassador dying on the anniversary of 9/11 a political stunt, especially when the only stunt that came out of this was democrats putting a fake story out there about it being a spontaneous protest because of a youtube video. that was the stunt that was pulled by the democrats. so, of course, they don't want to be at this hearing. they don't want to have anything to do with benghazi and be an old story because it could do serious damage to hillary clinton and the stunt was saying it was spontaneous protesters. we know that was a lie. democrats still not come clean on it and moving forward with this. >> so, ben, let's just ask you. i want to stick with you for a

second. this is a test for republicans. >> sure. >> conservative charles krauthammer is warning of grand standing and peggy noonan wrote this, the american people to the extent they're watching will turn off. in the end produce a humiliation and more importantly what happened wouldn't be found out. we are about to find out if republican congressmen can be mature. are you at all worried about the gop overreach on benghazi? >> no, i'm not. the reason why is because i think the people actually going to be a part of this committee genuinely care about what happened for those that lost loved ones. there was a lie told about why they died. there is -- if anything, i think democrats should be very careful here that they don't run away from this. if there is nothing to hide as they claim and every answer is answered, why would you not be a part of this hearing? and openly sit there and explain your story if there are no holes in it. i think that's the real question is why are democrats so afraid

of this if they've already said everything and everything is factual as they claim, it should be a very easy round two for them to retell their story but they know their story's not going to hold up and won't be there. >> i completely disagree. first of all, republicans often beat the four people died drum over and over again. no one is without -- >> because it matters. >> please let me finish. i didn't interrupt you. everyone is upset about four americans dying. awful tragedy and a prevent shl tragedy. everyone accepts that. but to continue to have political theater and grand standing does nothing to avenge or honor the lost of four lives and we see as an awful tragedy. people keep saying they want to understand why the security details weren't there, why more people weren't traveling with them, the questions presented by republicans. as if they haven't been answered. if you look at the bmbengbengha report, there are answers there.

it was a mistake and could have been prevented. it's nothing to do with benghazi but the fact they see hillary clinton as a formidable opponent in the 2016 presidential election and beat her up early to try to knock her out. it's a bad strategy. >> here's the issue. >> very quickly. >> if you look at the family members who lost loved ones, they were told on the tarmac by hillary clinton and joe biden that their family members died for something that never happened, spontaneous protest. the family members are still saying, they don't have complete answers from joe biden and hillary clinton. they want to know why they were lied to. that's still a very serious issue. if you had a loved one die. so it matters to them. >> all right. listen. we'll check back with you later on in the hour and talk about a number of other things so thank you both. turning to a gruesome crime and stunned a small country club community in georgia. an elderly man is found decapitated and police say his wife may have been kidnapped.

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welcome back. it is a startling story. rattling the nerves of a small country club community east of atlanta. an 88-year-old man decapitated. his wife missing. the death and disappearance are mysteries that detectives in

eaton, georgia, are investigating fast. the purse, cell phone and vehicle were all at the million dollar waterfront home where the headless body was found. cnn's victor blackwell is following the story. victor? >> reporter: randi, officials in putnam county, georgia, say the cause of death for 88-year-old russell is essentially whatever killed him happened to his head and they have not yet determined if it was trauma to the head maybe a blow to the head before the decapitation or if the decapitation itself killed the senior citizen in georgia. his wife, 87-year-old shirley, still missing. officials say that her purse, her cell phone were still there when they were discovered by friends who walked in through an unlocked door early on tuesday morning this week. officials believe that whatever happened, this crime happened sometime between friday and

sunday. now, we know that this is a quiet community, gated community, where things like this don't happen. the reason friends were able to walk in through the unlocked door is because people in the community in georgia they don't lock the doors. we had an opportunity to speak with the couple's pastor. >> we haven't had a homicide here in ten years and free from the violence and that kind of crime and so the whole area's that way and then if you had to pick all the residents, they would be at the bottom of the list of ones that someone would do a revenge, crime like this. >> the people in this community understandably shaken. the putnam county sheriff sills says that there are no if any credible leads here. no suspects which means everyone is under suspicion. >> it's an abduction, you would expect some sort of extortion demand if it was assassination,

you would think both of the people would be there. both bodies would be there. and then you have totally nothing in that background to indicate anything like this. and then the area where it happened is not indicative to any kind of homicide much less no domestic history. >> reporter: although the autopsy for mr. dur mont is completed, the toxicology report is not yet returned. so when i asked the deputy coroner there if it's possible that he was drugged maybe or there's some chemical involvement, he says they're not ruling anything out. randi? >> victor, thanks very much. so let's talk more about this bizarre story. criminal defense attorney and criminalist joins me now. holly, it is so very strange, the wife is missing, the husband is dead. his body found in the garage decapitated. what's this tell you about this killing? >> that they were absolutely

targeted, randi. this sanjay gupta some randy thing. it's a gated community and can be approached by the water and the law enforcement is guessing at this point, speculating perhaps this house was approached by the water. there's no forced entry. they knew enough it would be unlocked. walked in and they were targeted. unfortunately, what it seems like is that they took the gentleman's head to possibly torture maybe some atm numbers or bank information out of the elderly woman. she's 87 years old, randi. think about how much time and energy to take an 87-year-old woman and to care for her and keep her if you don't need something immediately from her. this was a targeted offense, unfortunately. and, you know, i really hope they find her but i think she probably served a very limited purpose and unfortunately we may not be looking at a rescue.

we may be looking at a recovery right now. >> wendy, what are your thoughts on this? why would they kill the husband and then abduct the wife? do you agree they needed her for something and possibly the man's head? >> i think holly's on to something, that really this was a search for money, bank account information, et cetera. i haven't read reports that anything was missing from the house itself so maybe they were going after -- it was a large home so these people may have been well off. and it may be bank accounts and that kind of money they were interested in. but you know, the bigger thing here is besides this tragic loss to this family and the fear for the woman is the community. this is a community who never has this kind of trauma. the fear and terror sweeping across this community almost as a kind of we're not into post traumatic stress disorder but in the middle of the trauma is debilitating to everyone around. >> holly, investigators are

going to display the image of the woman on the billboards in the state of georgia. what should they focus on? they're trying to get the photograph out there. i have seen her all over social media. we have seen it on twitter, facebook, and that's what they need to do. put her out there so that if, in fact, someone is holding her to get bank account information and need to bring her into the bank perhaps, randi, to sign off on something when she walks in that bank, she is going to be visible. everyone is immediately going to know who she is. her name is out there. her photograph is out there. so they are using their absolute best efforts and back in the day we didn't have all these great available resources for law enforcement. so you kind of passed out flyers and tacked them up on bulletin boards and telephone poles and now law enforcement has that electronic bill board. they have the ability to every missing case is no longer a local story, randi.

it is global and if she is brought into a bank, everybody's going to know who she is immediately. >> and wendy, as you mentioned, this is a quiet, retirement community, wealthy. how -- i guess, would you advise them to process something like this? you said it's going to be difficult. >> it's going to be difficult until the police have answers. of course, in the short term, you are going to see people locking doors and being weary if there's access from the water to the homes but eventually they can start to work through the grieving process once we have gotten some answers but right now i think people are sitting in an emotional limbo. >> all right, ladies. coming up next, a colorado mental health facility whose doors stayed open declaims of abuse and fraud, how allegedly unlicensed doctor kept it in business for 30 years. we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon

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how did an unlicensed professional despite claims of abuse. that's the question that haunts some of the alleged victims of a colorado treatment center. and some two dozen complaints to state regulators against the adolescent and family institute of colorado including complaints

of verbal and sexual abuse and fraud. let me bring in criminal defense attorney holly hughes and wendy walsh once again. the man in charge, alexander pontio jr. has refused cnn's request for an interview. what kind of charges could this guy face? >> we've heard horrific stories coming out. if these allegations are true, you're looking at everything from assault, battery, aggravated assault, sexual assault, rape if it went that far, practicing medicine without a license, fraud, fraud in the inducement if he got people to commit their children and signed contracts and took their money knowing he was not a licensed medical doctor and could not do what needed to be done, and you're also looking at, believe it or not, false imprisonment because some of these patients are alleging that things are happening to them and they kept trying to leave that room. and even though they voluntarily signed themselves into the facility if they're kept prisoner in a room when they have expressed i need to leave

this room, you need to stop abusing me, that's false imprisonment and kidnapping. we're looking at a host of charges if the allegations can be proven. >> it sounds like it. i'm curious about your take on this pabecause pontio was allegedly treating these patients. what do you make of this alleged behavior. >> i'm also a teacher and writer and unlicensed and i would never run a clinic like this. he may have had licensed therapists working in his practice and they may have been the people administrating. i can tell you the kinds of things he may claim. he may claim that really there were licensed people who were attending to and one of the claims, by the way, is that he stopped various patients' medications. this may be, of course, because he was not licensed to prescribe. but stopping someone's medications can be a dangerous thing and you have to do that with somebody under a medical license. he may say that they signed

disclosures. but as holly said if there are criminal offenses here that's a whole other ball game. there's one case tragic case of a teen aejd girl who soon after leaving committed suicide. he may argue she had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, that has an 8% suicide rate whether you go through the program or not. who knows how it will come out once it goes to court. >> very difficult and disturbing case for sure. happy mother's day to you as well. >> and to you. >> thanks. >> up next you'll see a cnn anchor cry and wipe away tears in front of a bunch of college grads. it's not me. it's cnn's don lemon, officially dr. don lemon.

comedian jay leno offered

some words of wisdom when he gave today's commencement speech at emerson college in boston. listen to leno's serious advice for new college grads. >> accept criticism, resolve to do better. you know something? i never read bad review, i always read bad reviews. you'll learn more from your critics than you'll ever learn from your friends. >> our own don lemon warmed up the crowd. he received an honorary degree from emerson, so he's now officially dr. don lemon. ♪ >> don lemon, talented journalist, revered role model and courageous advocate for gay rights. your courageous memoir titled "transparent" broke important new ground in which you became

one of the first nationally known broadcast news anchors to come out as gay. >> by virtue of the power invested in me by the commonwealth of massachusetts, and by the board of trustees of emerson college, i hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of dr. of humane letters which you have justly earned with all the rights pertaining thereto and welcome you warmly into the distinguished company of emerson alumni. >> oh, my god, you guys know i'm very grateful to be a part of your family now and now and forever, especially with this, but i would like to speak to the student who feels as others, the minority students, the black students, the white students, the people who are -- the people

who feel that they are overweight, the people who don't come from means, the poor people, the people who have challenges, the gay people, the lesbian people, i want you to live every single day, i want you to do something every single day that scares the hell out of you. i want you to be able to live with the threat of failure every day in your life and be damned what anybody thinks about you. don't take anything personally and don't worry what anyone thinks the of you. you have to live your truth. i love you, emerson, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. >> and of course, don and jay leno traded a few friendly zingers focusing on each other's line of work. both seemed to enjoy the lighthearted ribbing. >> couldn't emerson have gotten someone with a job to give their commencement address? >> i am the low man on this t e

totem pole. i want to thank don lemon for taking time out from looking for that airplane. i know you got to get back. >> they got some laughs and also pretty good advice today. a programming today, our anderson cooper just sat down with l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. you can see his exclusive interview, there's a picture of it right there, on ac-360 tomorrow night, and if you can't wait until then, we have you covered, a sneak peek on "new day" that starts at 6:00 eastern time. the clippers and the thunder are playing in l.a. oklahoma is leading by ten points with seven minutes left to go and one potential new owner of the clippers, magic johnson, happens to be at the game. you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm randi kaye.

this hour we're fast forwarding to the week ahead. we'll take a look at all the stories you'll hear about this coming week. let's begin with our five questions for the week ahead. question number one, what's the next step in finding the kidnapped girls? today we're getting a taste of just how frightening living in the presence of the boko haram terror group can be. one girl who made an escape was brave enough to tell her story to cnn, recalling the night that she and 200 other school girls were taken from their beds. she's the first international reporter to reach the eastern nigerian town where the girls were kidnapped. why did this young girl decide to share her story with you? >> well, there's definitely a sense for those of us outside of chibuk, this is